redstone 0.6.0-beta.1+4

A metadata driven microframework for Dart

##v0.6.0-beta.1

NOTE: this is a pre-release version!

• Updated to shelf 0.6
• Added the optional parameter headers to chain.forward()
• Added the request.handlerPath property (see shelf.Request.handlerPath)
• Bug fixes.

##v0.6.0-alpha.3

NOTE: this is a pre-release version!

• Added new constants for the commons http methods. #80
• Added the shared and logSetUp optional parameters to the start() function

##v0.6.0-alpha.2

NOTE: this is a pre-release version!

• Renamed request.queryParams to request.queryParameters
• Renamed request.pathParams to request.urlParameters
• Fix support for websocket connections
• Fix code comments to match the new API

##v0.6.0-alpha.1

NOTE: this is a pre-release version!

• Version highlights:

  • Fully rewritten from scratch! (The code base now has a better library layout, which is easier to maintain and evolve)
  • Polished API (see breaking changes)
  • Added the chain.forward() function, which allows routes, interceptors and error handlers to internally dispatch a request to another resource
  • Added the chain.createResponse() function, which can be used to easily create shelf.Response objects
  • Better support for async/await (see breaking changes)

• BREAKING CHANGES:

  • Renamed redstone/server.dart to redstone/redstone.dart
  • Renamed QueryMap to DynamicMap
  • Removed Route.matchSubPaths property (route_hierarchical supports this by default now)
  • Renamed setUp() and tearDown() to redstoneSetUp() and redstoneTearDown(). This avoids conflicts with the unittest package, if redstone is imported without a lib prefix.
  • redstoneSetUp() now returns a Future. You need to wait for its completion before dispatching any request.
  • Removed authenticateBasic() top level function
  • Moved parseAuthorizationHeader() top level function to the request object (request.parseAuthorizationHeader())
  • Removed the chain.interrupt() function.
  • The chain.next() and chain.abort() functions now return a Future<shelf.Response>. It's necessary to wait for the completion of the returned future when calling one of these functions, although, it's now possible to use them with async/await expressions. See the example below.
  • The chain.redirect() function now returns a shelf.Response
  • Redstone now generates an error page for every response which status code is less than 200, or greater than 299. To prevent this behavior, set showErrorPage to false
  • For interceptors and error handlers, it's now necessary to annotate injectable parameters with @Inject. Although, they now also accept the @Attr annotation, which binds a parameter with a request attribute.
  • Plugin API: Some methods of the Manager object are now getters.
  • Plugin API: Renamed RouteHandler to DynamicRoute
  • Plugin API: Renamed Handler to DynamicHandler
  • Plugin API: DynamicRoute and RouteWrapper do not receive the pathSegments map anymore, although, it can be accessed through the request.pathSegments property
  • request.queryParams is now a DynamicMap<String, List<String>>. Also, you can now use the @QueryParam annotation with List objects

Example: CORS Interceptor

import 'package:redstone/redstone.dart';
import "package:shelf/shelf.dart" as shelf;

@Interceptor(r'/.*')
handleCORS() async {
  if (request.method != "OPTIONS") {
    await chain.next();
  }
  return response.change(headers: {"Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*"});
}

• TODO:
  • Improve unit tests
  • Update plugins (redstone_mapper and redstone_web_socket aren't compatible with this version yet)
  • Improve documentation and website

##v0.5.19

• Fix: Error when setting Intereptor.parseRequestBody = true (Thanks to platelk. See PR #46).

v0.5.18

• Updated to Grinder v0.6.1 (see documentation)

v0.5.17

• Updated dependencies.
• Added the autoCompress parameter to the start() function.
• Added Route.statusCode and DefaultRoute.statusCode parameters.

Note: this version requires Dart 1.7 or above

v0.5.16

• Fix: Setting a new value in a QueryMap with the dot notation is not working properly.

v0.5.15

• Fix: Correctly log an exception when no stack trace is provided

v0.5.14

• Fix: Manager.findMethods() should include inherited methods.

v0.5.13

• Improved plugin API:
  • Added the Manager.getInjector() and Manager.createInjector() methods, which allow plugins to retrieve objects from di modules more easily.
  • Added the Manager.findFunctions(), Manager.findClasses() and Manager.findMethods() methods, which allow plugins to scan imported libraries.
  • Added the Manager.getShelfHandler() and Manager.setShelfHandler() methods, which allow plugins to access and replace the current installed shelf handler.

v0.5.12

• New feature: If a route has matchSubPaths = true, the requested subpath can be assigned to a parameter (see issue #36).

v0.5.11

• Minor performance fix: Redstone.dart shouldn't create a new shelf.Pipeline per request.

v0.5.10

• Upgraded to di 2.0.1

v0.5.9

• Fix: Redstone.dart can't be used with shelf_web_socket (issue #30).

v0.5.8+1

• Fixed docgen issue (see dartdocs log)

v0.5.8

• Added support for https (Thanks to vicb PR #26, see documentation)
• Code cleanup (Thanks to vicb PR #29)
• Fix: Properly handle error responses produced by a shelf handler

v0.5.7+2

• Improved error handling. See issue #24.

v0.5.7+1

• Fixed docgen issue (see dartdocs log)

v0.5.7

• Improved plugin API:
  • It's now possible to inspect installed routes, interceptors, error handlers and groups.
  • Added the Manager.addRouteWrapper() method, which allows plugins to modify routes that are annotated with a specific annotation.

v0.5.6

• Fixed logging issues.

v0.5.5+1

• Fixed issue with docgen.

v0.5.5

• Added the ErrorResponse class. A route can return or throw an ErrorResponse, to respond a request with a status code different than 200.

v0.5.4

• Fix: Response processors are not being invoked when a route returns a Future (Plugin API).
• Code cleanup (Thanks to vicb PR #20)
• Added the QueryMap class, a Map wrapper that allows the use of the dot notation to retreive its values (Thanks to digitalfiz issue #18)
  • app.request.queryParams, app.request.headers and app.request.attributes now returns a QueryMap.
  • The request body can also be retrieved as a QueryMap.
• Added the handleRequest(HttpRequest) method.

v0.5.3+1

• Widen the version constraint for di

v0.5.3

• Improved integration with Shelf
• shelf.Request.hijack() method is now supported (although it does not work in unit tests)
• The default error handler now uses the stack_trace package to print stack traces.

v0.5.2

• Fix: Request's state is being improperly cached (see issue #16).

v0.5.1

• Fix: Correctly handle route exceptions.

v0.5.0

• Added support for Shelf middlewares and handlers (see documentation)
• BREAKING CHANGE: Redstone.dart will no longer serve static files directly. You can use a Shelf handler for this (see documention)
• BREAKING CHANGE: It's no longer possible to access HttpRequest and HttpResponse. If you need to inspect or modify the response, you can use the global response object (see documentation)
• It's now possible to define multiple routes to the same path (see documentation)
• Added @DefaultRoute annotation (see documentation)
• Added serveRequests(Stream<HttpRequest> requests) method, which is an alternative to the start() method.

v0.4.0

• Added new annotations: @Install and @Ignore (see documentation)
• Added support for plugins (see documentation)

v0.3.1

• Renamed project to Redstone.dart
• New and improved documentation

v0.3.0

• Added Route.matchSubPaths property (see issue #5)
• Added ErrorHandler.urlPattern property (check documentation for details)
• Added request attributes (check documentation for details)
• Added support for dependency injection (check documentation for details)

v0.2.1

• Added support for basic authentication (thanks Y12STUDIO for the contribution)
  • Added parseAuthorizationHeader() method.
  • Added authenticateBasic() method.

v0.2.0

• BREAKING CHANGES (check documentation for more details):
  • VirtualDirectory is now configured with jailRoot = true and followLinks = false. You can change these flags through start() method.
  • For security and perfomance reasons, the parse of request body is now delayed as much as possible, so interceptors will receive null if they call request.body (although request.bodyType is still filled). If your interceptor need to inspect the request body, you can set Interceptor.parseRequestBody = true.
  • Multipart requests (file uploads) are now refused by default. If your method need to receive multipart requests, you can set Route.allowMultipartRequest = true.
  • All arguments of chain.interrupt() method are now optional.
• Bug fixes in abort(), redirect() and chain.interrupt() methods. (see issue #3).

v0.1.2

• Fix: bloodless crashes on Dart 1.3.

v0.1.1

• Fix: malformed requests can cause a crash

v0.1.0

• Bug fixes
• BREAKING CHANGE: chain.next() now receives a callback, instead of returning a Future
• Added new API for unit tests
• Updated documentation

v0.0.4

• Fix: chain.interrupt() is not closing the HttpResponse stream

v0.0.3

• Added a grinder task to properly copy sever's files to the build folder
• Updated documentation with a better approach for building projects

v0.0.2

• Small fix to VirtualDirectory configuration

v0.0.1

• First release